What is Readybrek? (or what food adventures have you had in the last two weeks)

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Dickie

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During lockdown we had virtual Friday night drinks at work. One week there was a competition to see who could put together the best quarantine cocktail - a Quarantini !
I made one including rice and bolognaise sauce, with the umbrella comprising a bit of spaghetti and toilet paper for the parasol. I called it Hoarder's Horror.

 

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thehungrytroglobite

thehungrytroglobite

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Today, I made too much porridge for breakfast, so I left half of it in the pot. When it came to lunch time, I wanted something savoury to go with the porridge, so I fried some vegan shredded duck and put this on it along with sliced spring onions and soy sauce. It was actually very nice.
 
pwhole

pwhole

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That's because you keep thinking of it as a delicious meal, when it's actually more of an 'edible construction material'. Though I admit I am also totally lost on vegan duck. That's just quackers.
 
Robert Scott

Robert Scott

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thehungrytroglobite said:
Today, I made too much porridge for breakfast, so I left half of it in the pot. When it came to lunch time, I wanted something savoury to go with the porridge, so I fried some vegan shredded duck and put this on it along with sliced spring onions and soy sauce. It was actually very nice.
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My paternal grandmother regularly made too much porridge, several days of it usually. The excess would be poured into a kitchen drawer, lined with pages from the Stornoway Gazette of course. As it set, it would be scored into portion sized chunks for use in subsequent days.
Annie Jane was a lovely woman.
Strangely, even after all these years, I'm not a fan of porridge.
 
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tamarmole

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When I was an undergraduate at Dundee Uni in the mid 1980s a story was doing the rounds about a student at Aberdeen Uni  who had blown his most of his grant on a new hifi.  What little remained to him he spent on a sack of porridge oats which he promptly cooked up and stored in a drawer.  When he was hungry he would simply cut a chunk off and fry it up.  Several months later he was carted off with scurvy!
 
cavemanmike

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A bit old school I know but you can't beat kellogs cornflakes
 

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ZombieCake

ZombieCake

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Had one of those Nectar vouchers for a discount on a large raspberry trifle.  Got home and ate the lot in one go, saves cooking. It was very nice, although a bit commercial and not quite like home made with no sherry or angelica or glace cherries.
No porridge was harmed in the eating of the trifle. 
 
Rachel

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I had a craving for something sweet, but found that there was nothing of that description in the house at all. I then had a moment of inspiration, popped a few frozen yorkshire puds in the air fryer and served them with golden syrup.
 
pwhole

pwhole

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My gran used to make a large tray Yorkshire Pudding with chunks of Bramley apples in, a bit of sugar in the mix, and then a bit more sprinkled on top afterwards, served with custard - lovely.
 
Brains

Brains

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Rachel said:
I had a craving for something sweet, but found that there was nothing of that description in the house at all. I then had a moment of inspiration, popped a few frozen Yorkshire puds in the air fryer and served them with golden syrup.
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My late Dad used to say if there were any Yorkie puds left over when he was growing up they would have them with jam or syrup for dessert. When we were growing up, there were never any left over! Now I am grown up, there still arent any left over for dessert...  ;)
 
Brains

Brains

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ditzy said:
Speleofish said:
Which only goes to show, you don't make enough in the first place...
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guess we need more next time but how many is too much  :LOL:
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As a child on a visit to my Uncles house I had a large Sunday roast and 48 specially cooked Yorkies as I was still hungry.... All with gravy  ;)
 
Brains

Brains

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When I was a student in the early 80's vegetarians were pale and rare and vegan were pale and ill... A housemate decided he would do a lentil stew with beetroot in the pressure cooker, but enough to last a long time... The lentils bunged the pressure relief valve so when it finally blew there was red gloop dripping from the ceiling, the walls, the light fittings. It looked like a cheap gore fest horror movie  :eek:

Another time me and the girlfriend made a steam sponge pudding, but used salt instead of sugar as we used the wrong container of white granular food stuff. It was vile but another housemate and her boyfriend ate it anyway...
 
Brains

Brains

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Speleofish said:
If you haven't been sick, there weren't enough
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Been sick from eating chips too fast, and rice... but never from over eating, although I have wished I could be a few times!
Had a whole Victoria sponge hot from the oven while it was on the cooling rack - burnt my mouth but so tasty <3
My Dad and Uncle at one family meal split a steam sponge pudding between them, leaving nothing for the rest of us - so shocked and disappointed!
 
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